The Drive To TranquilityPeterson Road Beach lies at the end of Peterson Road near Honor, Michigan, in the southern portion of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Follow the local roads west toward Lake Michigan and stay on Peterson Road until it reaches the park access area. Peterson Road Beach is part of a protected lakeshore habitat, and that includes nesting areas for the endangered piping plover. Peterson Road Beach is known for rock hunting, and the possibility of spotting a Petoskey stone gives many people a slower, more attentive reason to walk the waterline. Near the tiny community of Honor, the route to Peterson Road Beach passes through a pocket of northern Michigan that still feels modest, practical, and pleasantly uninterested in spectacle.